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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
— Aleister Crowley
Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.
— Aleister Crowley
It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.
— Aleister Crowley
The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.
— Aleister Crowley
The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.
— Aleister Crowley
All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is true and false.
— Aleister Crowley
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.
— Aleister Crowley
Like clouds in rain, like seasExultant as they roll,
We mix in ecstasies,
And, as breeze melts in breeze,
Thy soul becomes my soul. — Aleister Crowley
We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.
— Aleister Crowley
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan
— Aleister Crowley
Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle
— Aleister Crowley
Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.
— Aleister Crowley
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.
— Aleister Crowley
Love is the law, love under will.
— Aleister Crowley
The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.
— Aleister Crowley
Her cheeks were bright with a soft vermilion of the pomegranate mingling with the whiteness of the lily.
— Aleister Crowley
The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.
— Aleister Crowley
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
— Aleister Crowley
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
— Aleister Crowley
Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.
— Aleister Crowley
This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.
— Aleister Crowley
When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre.
— Aleister Crowley
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
— Aleister Crowley
The key of joy is disobedience.
— Aleister Crowley
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
— Aleister Crowley
I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.
— Aleister Crowley
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
— Aleister Crowley
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
— Aleister Crowley
I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.
— Aleister Crowley
The sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul.
— Aleister Crowley
64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.
— Aleister Crowley
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
— Aleister Crowley
One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.
— Aleister Crowley
Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink.
— Aleister Crowley
The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!
— Aleister Crowley
The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.
— Aleister Crowley
Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest
— Aleister Crowley
Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.
— Aleister Crowley
Sleep I forget. Her silky breath no longer fans my ears; I dream I float on some forgotten stream that hath a saviour still of death,
— Aleister Crowley
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life ...
— Aleister Crowley
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
— Aleister Crowley
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
— Aleister Crowley
The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.
— Aleister Crowley
There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.
— Aleister Crowley
I am alone. There is no God where I am.
— Aleister Crowley
He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.
— Aleister Crowley
VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI.By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Universe. — Alan Moore
Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over mealmost as if I were going to think! — Aleister Crowley
Stab your demoniac smile to my brain,Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine — Aleister Crowley
Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.
— Aleister Crowley
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.
— Aleister Crowley
There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.
— Aleister Crowley
There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!
— Aleister Crowley
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
— Aleister Crowley
I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .
— Aleister Crowley
Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.
— Aleister Crowley
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
— Aleister Crowley
It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.
— Aleister Crowley
Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them ...
— Aleister Crowley
Magic is real. And reality ... it is magical.
— Aleister Crowley
The word of Sin is Restriction
— Aleister Crowley
To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death.
— Aleister Crowley
A burnt child dreads the fire.
— Aleister Crowley
A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not.
— Aleister Crowley
Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!
— Aleister Crowley
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
— Aleister Crowley
I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, 'Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.
— Aleister Crowley
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
— Aleister Crowley
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought.31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness. — Aleister Crowley
This is the Night wherein I'm lost, the Love through which I am no longer
— Aleister Crowley
Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
— Aleister Crowley
But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.
— Aleister Crowley
The Universe is the looking-glass of the soul.
— Aleister Crowley
Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.
— Aleister Crowley
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
— Aleister Crowley
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
— Aleister Crowley
Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.
— Aleister Crowley
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
— Aleister Crowley
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.
— Aleister Crowley
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
— Aleister Crowley
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
— Aleister Crowley
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
— Aleister Crowley
The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.
— Aleister Crowley
Belief is the enemy of knowledge.
— Aleister Crowley
Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!
— Aleister Crowley
Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure.
— Aleister Crowley
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results - of an extremely temporary nature.
— Aleister Crowley
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
— Aleister Crowley
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
— Aleister Crowley
Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.
— Aleister Crowley
Sanity is a compromise.
— Aleister Crowley
You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.
— Aleister Crowley
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
— Aleister Crowley
Every man and every woman is a star.
— Aleister Crowley
